Posted on 03/27/2021 12:09:58 PM PDT by USA Conservative
Days after the Ever Given became lodged in the canal, its rudder has been freed and dredging is complete. Some salvagers hope it could be freed this weekend, but the wait for shipping to resume continues.
Egyptian authorities Wednesday were engaged in a complicated effort to dislodge a giant container ship stuck in the Suez Canal, blocking all traffic on one of the world’s busiest shipping arteries.
The huge vessel got stuck in the canal sideways, with its bow wedged in one bank and its stern nearly touching the other, on Tuesday during a dust storm when wind speeds reached 40 knots, according to a person familiar with the incident.
When the Ever Given container ship ran aground in the Suez Canal on Tuesday, its bulk blocking shipping traffic through the key global thoroughfare, the world looked on, wondering how the authorities would manage to unstick the behemoth.
Days later, the vessel is still stuck, amid a frantic effort to free it, and fears over the cascading costs of the fallout. Already, shipping analysts estimated, the traffic jam has held up nearly $10 billion in trade each day.
Vessels packed with the world’s goods — including cars, oil, livestock and laptops — usually flow through the waterway with ease, supplying much of the globe as they transverse the quickest path from Asia and the Middle East to Europe and the East Coast of the United States.
Lots of conspiracies were told about the ship and it seems the news that we have from China will raise even more suspicion.
A photo on Weibo in mainland China went viral today (27). A truck carrying an "Evergreen container" was stuck on the highway, staged a road version of the "Evergreen" scene.
In the photo, it can be seen that the truck on the highway was photographed and downloaded with the "Evergreen Container". A squeezed SUV stuck on the edge of the road. The car from the rear was affected by the accident, and it was difficult to pass and nobody could move. According to the monitoring data, the accident occurred at about 9:55 this morning, and the accident site was on the Nanjing section of the Changchun-Shenzhen Expressway which is one of China's busiest highways.
Images below:
Long queues on the expressway due to car accidents are not very rare. But now that the Evergreen freighter is still blocking the Suez Canal, a similar accident is happening again, which inevitably makes everyone feel that the timing is too close, even it could be just a coincidence.
There were a lot of discussions.
People left messages saying, "Sea and land are blocked", "Awesome, monopolistic enterprise, in a physical sense", "Will Evergreen go to hell?", "Evergreen should pay more attention", " It’s exactly the same as the posture of a freighter going sideways.
What do you think?
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“I’m hearing they are going to start opening up containers on the Ever Given with the expectation of finding children.”
No, I have it on good authority it’s aliens.
Did you know the people in Taiwan are Chinese?
Do you think that if Taiwan opposed China in all things they wouldn't have already been invaded?
I'm gonna have to give two 'c'mon, mans' to the naivete of some here.
Evergreen is a derp state operation, whether the sign on the door says Taiwan or China.
The ship was enroute from CHINA to Rotterdam, a derp state shipping hub.
What is (or was) in the containers?
Questions, questions.
#TheSumOfAllFears
#TheWireSeason3
#TheSilentWarContinues
Now where did he get that from?
cough *Q* cough
The photos may have gone viral, but not on this thread.
Do you find it curious that Trump's Chief of Staff for Communications (a huge Q guy) even now tweets out a very popular and recurring Q phrase like 'watch the water'?
I find it curious. You suppose Scavino is the author of some kind of left wing psyop like the wizards describe Q?
This bears investigating.
Haha. You make a valid argument.
Traitors need more than shaming!!
3-2-1 Trump’s fault!
I don’t know but there are a lot of things going on that are being reported on alternative news sites but you don’t hear a peep in MSM. Not that I would expect to.
Simon Parkes love him or ridicule him has posted that the Trump team is meeting with officials at the Pentagon today.
Love me or ridicule me but we received a series of texts this morning from a well connected friend that says the US navy, Russian navy and NATO allies are blockading the coastline of both ends of the Suez canal. No ships being allowed to leave the area. I have no idea what they are all up to.
Something is definitely going. I know not what.
Prediction: buy toilet paper. 😉
Close the Strait of Malacca and all China’s oil imports, which is over 75% of total, are at risk.
The US Navy could do that alone, easily.
As for Taiwan, an invasion...even without outside intervention...is more than China’s limited power projection capability and expertise is able to pull off without unacceptable losses.
Losses severe enough to put the remainder of their forces at serious risk should other nations intervene. The JMSDF could, alone, present substantial risk to the PLAN as forces concentrate around Taiwan.
Throw in US Air Power and China is humiliated. Set back 50 years.
Also every Chinese soldier, sailor and airman is an only child. China could be looking at a real revolution because every group would be affected.
Yes, that was discussed on the Q thread. Some kind of perimeter around the EU also.
Big drama.
(cannot vouch for accuracy)
GG2, you should hang on the Q thread. We discuss rumors like these and you will not be mocked by the know nothings.
AND, its a Humble free zone!
I added the blog pimp key word for you you forgot to add
You’re welcome.
I like the attempt at lively prose. It’s not bad. Better than a lot I’m seeing posted here.
But you still have some problems. Eg
“Days later, the vessel is still stuck, amid a frantic effort to free it, and fears over the cascading costs of the fallout.”
Watch your commas or your verbs or lack thereof.
If you are going to write a sentence with an aside you should check how the sentence reads without it. So, take out “amid a frantic effort to free it”.
“Days later, the vessel is still stuck and fears over the cascading costs of the fallout.”
You see you have a missing verb.
It could be fixed by correcting your comma usage:
“Days later the vessel is still stuck amid a frantic effort to free it and fears over the cascading costs of the fallout.”
But then how does the fallout cost money? I think you mean the cost of rescue, of getting it unstuck and the money list waiting. The fallout will come later and be due to these costs of rescue and business losses.
Where do you get your Weibo crap from?
How exactly does an independent Taiwan block China’s commercial access to the world?
This makes about as much sense as saying Nova Scotia blocks American commercial access to Europe.
Sorry, wrong thread. I forgot I had switched. Will put that comment where it belongs, a moderator could delete these two.
The world burns, but commas.
*rolls eyes*
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